The most cattle cottage in the Anti-Japanese War

Chapter 1055 Unexpected situation
Li Chuanzong listened with gusto and expressed his emotions from time to time.

He talked a lot today, and the reason for this was that he was going to perform a secret mission today, so he was inevitably a little nervous, and he wanted to use this to relieve his nervousness.

As the backbone of the intelligence department, Li Chuanzong has performed difficult tasks many times before, so it should not be so nervous.However, the Nanyang area has been under the control of the Guojun over the years, and the number of times the agents of the military command Nanyang station went deep into the enemy-occupied area to perform tasks was greatly reduced. Li Chuanzong had not been to the enemy-occupied area for many years.

Now that he is married and has a pair of children, he is more cherishing his life than before, that's why he feels nervous this time.

The task Zhou Mingshan gave Li Chuanzong was to enter Guning County, get in touch with the military intelligence agents in the county, and then get in touch with the chief of staff of the 37th Division, Kuan Jiuheng Dazuo.

Kuan Jiuheng and Gao Jiu can be regarded as old friends. He was the captain of the 63rd Regiment of the Japanese Army stationed in Luxian County. He once gave Gao Jiu 20 rounds of bullets and helped Gao Jiu many times.

This time Commander Yang led the Sichuan Army troops passing through the defense area of ​​the 37th Division. Gao Jiu hoped that the Japanese army could open a passage, so he sent someone into the city to get in touch with him.

Zhou Mingshan, Li Chuanzong and others landed on the outskirts of Guning County in an armed helicopter, and Li Chuanzong went to the county on foot.

After entering the city, Li Chuanzong came to the contact point of the military command, got in touch with the secret agents lurking here, and then went to the post office, and called the duty phone of the 37th Division through an outside phone.

Kuan Jiuheng's adjutant answered the phone. Li Chuanzong said that he was a friend of Kuan Jiuheng, and the other party agreed to meet Li Chuanzong. The two parties agreed on a time and place to meet.

Li Chuanzong has rich experience in reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance. When the appointed time came, he did not go directly to the teahouse where he had agreed to meet. Instead, he hid in a nearby shop until he saw a Japanese army captain enter the teahouse. He didn't go in right away, but looked around.

He didn't find any suspicious traces, so he entered the teahouse.

After Li Chuanzong walked up to the second floor, he saw the Japanese captain sitting at the table near the window, looking at the menu, but he was watching the stairs from the corner of his eyes.

He saw that Li Chuanzong's age and clothes were the same as what he said on the phone, so he nodded slightly towards him.

Li Chuanzong looked around, found nothing suspicious, and walked towards him.

Li Chuanzong pretended to ask him about the situation, but actually exchanged code words with him. Seeing that there was no problem, he walked into a private room. Soon after, the Japanese army captain followed him.

The Japanese captain said, "Are you the messenger sent by Mr. Gao?"

Li Chuanzong nodded and said, "I am."

The Japanese lieutenant asked, "May I ask Mr. Gao, what do you need to ask your Excellency?"

Li Chuanzong said: "Gao Jiuye has a business and wants to cooperate with Your Excellency, Captain, please send a message from Your Excellency."

The Japanese captain said: "If you have anything to say, just say it."

Li Chuanzong said: "Jiuye invited a group of guests from Sichuan, and they are going to pass through your army's defense area. Please let your army get out of the way."

The Japanese captain asked: "What guests? How many people are there? Where do you pass by? Where are you going? Please explain in detail."

Li Chuanzong suddenly felt a little puzzled, and the question he asked on the surface seemed to have no problem.When asking people to give way, one must explain clearly to them what is going on.But Li Chuanzong felt a little uneasy, because before he came, Zhou Mingshan had already explained that Master Jiu said that it was enough to prepare to cross the road, and there was no need to go into details about other things, because there was a tacit understanding between him and Mr. Kuan Jiuheng .

Not only that, but when an army of the Sichuan Army came to the boundary of Xiangyang, it was impossible for the Japanese army to not notice it. It was clear that Gao Jiu wanted the 37th Division to give way to the Sichuan Army, and there would be no conflict between the two sides.

Gao Jiu used to directly communicate with Chief Kuan Jiuheng through the radio station. The reason why Li Chuanzong was sent this time was because Gao Jiu had not been able to contact Colonel Kuan Jiuheng through the radio station, so he had to send someone to meet with Grand Master Kuan Jiuheng.

The Japanese captain had never met Li Chuanzong, not even Gao Jiu. The last time Li Chuanzong asked to speak to Colonel Kuan Jiuheng, he was not found.

The adjutant said at the time that it was inconvenient for Grand Zuo Kuan Jiuheng, and he had already told him to come to meet Li Chuanzong.The middle itself made people feel a little uneasy, and the adjutant asked such detailed questions, which made Li Chuanzong suspicious.

He decided to stop at the point and not reveal the relevant secrets any more. He was going to go back and ask Zhou Mingshan for instructions before making any plans.

In order to avoid arousing the suspicion of the Japanese captain, he said: "I am here this time, just to meet with you first to see if you have any difficulties here. I don't know the specific content. I have to wait until I report back to the chief. I will contact you again."

Li Chuanzong originally said this was a good rhetoric.He believed that if the Japanese captain wanted to find out if he had a problem and asked about the specific content of this operation, he should let him go and find out the situation when we meet again.

Therefore, he should not be detained until the other party has the exact situation.However, he didn't expect that he was from the Guojun side, so he casually said, "Report to the chief when you go back," which exposed his identity.

The Japanese captain was sure that this person was not one of Gao Jiu's subordinates, otherwise, he would not have such a title.He felt that Li Chuanzong had realized that he had a problem, so of course he couldn't let Li Chuanzong go back.

So he shouted loudly: "Come here!"

Following the voice, several plainclothes agents with bastard boxes rushed in and arrested Li Chuanzong.

After Li Chuanzong entered the teahouse, the military intelligence agents who followed him had been quietly monitoring the place.

Seeing that Li Chuanzong hadn't come out for so long, he felt something was wrong.Later he saw a car parked at the door of the teahouse, and soon Li Chuanzong was escorted out by several plainclothes agents and pushed into the car.

Due to the shortage of funds and insufficient equipment, the military command intelligence station in Guning County was not equipped with a radio station, so the military command agents had to find an opportunity to go out of the city to report to Zhou Mingshan.

When they arrived at the gate of the city, they found that the gate had been blocked and they couldn't get out at all.

Zhou Mingshan has been guarding outside the city. He doesn't know how to meet with the Japanese army inside, so he is not sure what happened inside.He waited until 4:30 p.m., feeling something was wrong, so he sent people into the city to find Li Chuanzong, but the people he sent found that the city gate had been closed ahead of time, which made it clear that something happened in the city.

It is impossible for Li Chuanzong to come out today, maybe something happened to him himself.So the military command agent hurried back to report to Zhou Mingshan.

Zhou Mingshan guessed that something happened to Li Chuanzong, so he sent a telegram to Gao Jiu.

After Gao Jiu received the telegram, he also felt that there must be something wrong.He couldn't get in touch with Kuan Jiuheng by telegram. Maybe there was something wrong with Kuan Jiuheng. In addition to the current situation, Kuan Jiuheng's line should be unusable.

Gao Jiu's guess was correct. A month ago, Kuan Jiuheng had been transferred from the 37th Division to the South Asian Front Army as the commander of the 24th Division.The reason why Kuan Jiuheng dealt with Gao Jiu in the past was because he had no choice. The 37th Division's defense zone was very close to Nanyang, and the Taohuashan guerrillas would often pass through the 37th Division's defense zone. Gao Jiu asked for cooperation.Now that he has finally been transferred from the 37th Division, he refuses to contact Gao Jiu for the time being.

The Japanese captain Li Chuanzong saw was the personal adjutant of the current chief of staff of the Japanese army.When Li Chuanzong called Kuan Jiuheng, he really wanted to find out what kind of connection Kuan Jiuheng had with people outside, so he sent his adjutant here to pretend to be Kuan Jiuheng's adjutant.

Gao Jiu called Zhou Mingshan back and asked him to learn about the mobilization of the Japanese army through the Xiangyang Station of the Military Command.

Soon after, news came that the 37th Division of the Japanese Army was gathering troops to go to the Funiu Mountains for reinforcements.Obviously, this is where the troops targeting the Sichuan Army went.

Gao Jiu knew that a fierce battle was inevitable, so he also began to mobilize troops to meet the troops of the Tenth Army of the Sichuan Army brought by Commander Yang.

Gao Jiu's judgment was not wrong. After the Japanese captured Li Chuanzong, he was severely tortured.

Li Chuanzong was very strong and withstood the torture of the Japanese army, and did not reveal the secrets of the Taohuashan guerrillas and the military command.

Based on the information they had obtained and some information revealed in the conversation with Li Chuanzong, the Japanese army had already judged Gao Jiu's general intentions.

They knew that the Sichuan Army troops coming from Sichuan were going to join the battlefields in Shandong or Henan to cooperate with the anti-Japanese armed forces.Because it is related to Gao Jiu, it is more likely to join the Shandong battlefield.

So the 37th Division of the Japanese Army reported the situation to the Central China Front Army Command.

The Central China Front Army reported the situation to the Minister of Army, who ordered the Central China Front Army to mobilize troops to block the Sichuan army.

After the 37th Division of the Japanese Army received the order, it sent the 74th Brigade to the Funiu Mountains to block the Sichuan Army's way to Henan.

At the same time, the Central China Front Army mobilized the 75th Independent Mixed Brigade stationed in Xiangyang to copy the back of the Sichuan Army's Tenth Army, striving to encircle and wipe out the Sichuan Army's Tenth Army in the Funiu Mountains.

After negotiation, Wang Jindong dispatched two divisions of the newly formed 187th Army to the Funiu Mountains to attack the Japanese 74th Brigade.Gao Jiu personally led the air commando of the Taohuashan guerrillas to support the Sichuan Army's Tenth Army in operations.

Before departure, Gao Jiu sent a reconnaissance plane to the Funiu Mountains for reconnaissance. The reconnaissance plane reported that on the hills around the road passing through the Funiu Mountains, the Japanese army built a large number of defensive positions to block the advance of the Sichuan army.

He ordered the bomber fleet stationed in Nanyang to go to the Funiu Mountains to bomb the Japanese positions.

Soon after the bomber set off, Gao Jiu also led the air commando to the Funiu Mountains to attack the Japanese army.

The 74th Brigade has received a notification from their superiors. They know that the Taohuashan guerrillas have powerful air commandos. If the air commandos attack forcefully, they will definitely be hit hard by these rapid-fire guns.

The Japanese army did not expect that Gao Jiu's punch was a combination.

This morning, the observation post of the Japanese army saw a small black spot appearing in the sky, and immediately fired a shot to call the police, and reported to their superiors with a wireless telegraph.

The Japanese army immediately ordered the rapid-fire artillery to enter the position, ready to attack the guerrilla air commandos.The Japanese rapid-fire artillery artillery occupied the favorable terrain on the top of the mountain, and many rapid-fire artillery formed a crossfire. They were full of confidence and believed that they would be able to deal a heavy blow to the armed helicopters of the guerrillas.

The Japanese army did not expect that the first thing to fly over was not an armed helicopter, but a high-altitude bomber.

This time, it is an improved B24 bomber based on the B29 Liberator bomber. The flying altitude of this bomber reaches 8 kilometers.

The effective range of the Japanese rapid-fire guns for air-to-air shooting was only 1900 meters, and the B29 bombers started bombing at an altitude of 3 kilometers. The Japanese army had no way to resist.

Although the bombs were dropped at such a high altitude, the hit accuracy was very poor, but there were a large number of B29 bombers who came to bomb, and the Japanese army was exposed on the top of the mountain and had nowhere to hide, so a large number of aerial bombs fell into the Japanese positions.

The officers and soldiers of the Japanese army suffered heavy casualties, and even the rapid-fire guns were destroyed in large numbers.

Just when the Japanese army panicked and avoided the bombers, Gao Jiu commanded the air commando to fly over. More than 100 armed helicopters flew over the Japanese positions, firing rockets and violently strafing with machine guns.

The Japanese army had already been dizzy by the aerial bombs. Under the fierce firepower of the air commandos, they had no power to fight back. The defensive positions were destroyed, and the Japanese officers and soldiers suffered heavy casualties.

After the air commandos finished shooting the rockets and machine gun bullets they had brought, and returned, the head of the 74th Brigade of the Japanese Army who was hiding in the cave climbed to the top of the mountain to watch.

He saw the mutilated corpses of Japanese soldiers all over the mountains and plains, and the defensive positions had already been bombed to pieces.

Although he had already planned for the worst in his heart, this result still surprised him.

After the previous round of bombing and air commando strikes, the 75th Brigade lost more than 3500 people. This is an infantry regiment.Most of the various artillery in the position, including anti-aircraft guns, have been destroyed, and the only result achieved is to shoot down an armed helicopter of the air commando.

The task of the 74th Brigade was to stop the troops of the Sichuan Army. Now that the shadow of the Sichuan Army has not been seen, it has already suffered such heavy losses. The brigade leader really doesn't know how to fight this battle.

He knew very well that the anti-Japanese armed forces would not give up in order to open up the channel for the Sichuan army to enter Henan. It is estimated that a large number of guerrilla bombers will come to bomb again, and the air commandos replenished with ammunition and fuel will also come again. attack.

(End of this chapter)